...down to the fort which gives you are great view of Sugar Loaf. Anywhere in Copacabana and Ipanema is walkable from this hotel and during daylight hours it seemed pretty safe to wander around freely, but if we were venturing far from our hotel at night then we would always take a taxi.
Realistically, to get to other areas of Rio you need to travel by taxi or bus. We tended to go by taxi as they...

...Rio de Janeiro "River of January" is the second major city of Brazil, behind only São Paulo. Its 8 million inhabitants occupy an area of 485 square miles. There are three main city districts: Centre, South, and North. The city centre is the financial and business district of Rio. After the transfer of the capital to Brasília, in 1960, the process of economic transfer to São Paulo was increased...

...Outside of Pixar, the quality of recent animated offerings have varied wildly, from the pits of Monsters vs Aliens and Shrek jumping the shark not once, but twice, to a host of, happily, much better efforts. Rio falls somewhere in the middle of the spectrum of quality, with a story that calls on all the tropes and predictabilities of light-family-adventure but has enough visual flair...